On 09/03/07, P. Birken <pbirken(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2007/3/8, Daniel Mayer <maveric149(a)yahoo.com>om>:
One very often requested functionality outside
the Wikimedia fold is to use
user groups to
limit/control editing and viewing of pages (perhaps based on namespace). My
point, is to just keep
that and other possible uses - even those we never plan to use in
Wikimedialand - in mind.
The possibility that IPs see the last sighted version, while logged in
users see the current one is part of the proposal. Otherwise, what I
like about open Source is that the people outside of Wikimedialand can
just code if they need it so much :-)
I think mav was suggesting that we use the opportunity of all these
changes to also change the current system of very general usertype
priv modification ($wgGroupPermissions) to one with a great deal more
specificity (and, well, a wiki interface) - e.g. number of
(views/edits/deletes/protects/moves) in a (time unit) that a given
(IP, usertype, user, user of a certain type) can make to (a particular
page/namespace/wiki).
Not sure if that's beyond the scope of this project, though;
certainly, it would be a quite bit of work to do, even if it is a
feature some stakeholders might like.
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
jdforrester(a)wikimedia.org | james(a)jdforrester.org | jdforrester(a)gmail.com
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